Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation in Mozambican Urban Water, Sanitation, and Drainage Sector

Abstract

The Capacity Development Programme (CDP) is an agreement between the Government of Mozambique and the Nordic Development Fund, to tackle climate variability by planning and the sustainable operations and maintenance of sanitation and drainage infrastructure. The Mozambican Administration of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure (AIAS) is the agency responsible for this project. The international consortium in charge of developing the CDP provided consultancy services to AIAS and the vulnerable cities of Beira and Matola. The assignment included not only capacity building but also institutional strengthening activities, as well as specific studies, mainly based on climate modelling (dynamic downscaling) and mapping exercises. Important results and conclusions were achieved, and further adaptation strategies to increase the resilience of the Mozambican urban water, sanitation, and drainage sector were proposed.

Co-developing evidence-informed adaptation actions for resilient citywide sanitation: Local government response to climate change in Indonesia

“…The typical dimensions of CWIS, covering institutional mandates and arrangements (Schrecongost et al, 2020), managerial and technical capacity (Gambrill et al, 2020) will need to be extended to take account of new skills that will be needed to consider the risks, technical and managerial responses and additional financing needs in the face of climate change. A key challenge will be to strengthen institutions, capacity and coordination, as has been attempted in Mozambique (Muradás et al, 2020). The diverse existing and proposed actions by local government are synthesised below (see Table 2) supplemented with selected points drawn from previous research (ISF-UTS and SNV, 2019) to form a distilled set of adaptation actions that may be applicable to other contexts and to inform climate resilient CWIS.…”

“…The people governing and managing sanitation systems must also develop capacity to learn about changes in the environment and capacity to adapt or transform the broader sanitation system (ISF-UTS and SNV, 2019), in line with a systems strengthening approach (Moriarty and Huston, 2018). However, to date there are few studies that focus on adaptation responses (Clemenz et al, 2020;Muradas et al, 2021), and none to date that adopt a systems-wide perspective such as that proposed in this paper and aligned with citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS), described further below.…”

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“…In this context, there is a growing consensus on the need to assess the energy [36,37] and water [38] use of built parks [39,40].…”